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on the back and Aving coverts, where the middle of the feathers is 

 marked with black ; chin and throat white, with a few dusky streaks, 

 but from the breast the whole of the under parts crossed with 

 numerous, slender, dusky bars, almost touching each other ; tail 

 marked with seven or eight pale ones on the inner webs, appearing 

 beneath ; shafts white ; wings long, reaching to the end of the tail ; 

 legs pale yellow. 



Inhabits New South Wales ; said to live on small birds, fish, 

 and reptiles. 



164.— ASH-TAILED FALCON. 



LENGTH 29 in. Bill and cere dirty horn-colour ; plumage 

 above brown, the edges of the feathers paler ; inside of the wings 

 brown and white; of the prime and second quills brown black; 

 the under parts of the body paler, mixed with brown ; each feather 

 of the belly light at the tip, surrounded with dusky ; tail of a 

 moderate length, pale ash-colour; and the wings, when closed, reach 

 somewhat beyond the end of it; legs yellow, two inches long; claws 

 black. 



Inhabits New South Wales — Gen. Da vies. 



